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ASF GitHub Bot commented on DRILL-5660:
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Github user vdiravka commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/drill/pull/877#discussion_r129485531
  
    --- Diff: 
exec/java-exec/src/test/java/org/apache/drill/exec/store/parquet/TestParquetMetadataCache.java
 ---
    @@ -38,24 +40,31 @@
       private static final String TEST_RES_PATH = WORKING_PATH + 
"/src/test/resources";
       private static final String tableName1 = "parquetTable1";
       private static final String tableName2 = "parquetTable2";
    -  private static final String RELATIVE_PATHS_METADATA = 
"relative_paths_metadata";
    +  private static File dataDir1;
    +  private static File dataDir2;
     
     
       @BeforeClass
       public static void copyData() throws Exception {
         // copy the data into the temporary location
         String tmpLocation = getDfsTestTmpSchemaLocation();
    -    File dataDir1 = new File(tmpLocation + Path.SEPARATOR + tableName1);
    +    dataDir1 = new File(tmpLocation + Path.SEPARATOR + tableName1);
    --- End diff --
    
    Done


> Drill 1.10 queries fail due to Parquet Metadata "corruption" from DRILL-3867
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: DRILL-5660
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DRILL-5660
>             Project: Apache Drill
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 1.11.0
>            Reporter: Paul Rogers
>            Assignee: Vitalii Diravka
>              Labels: doc-impacting
>
> Drill recently accepted a PR for the following bug:
> DRILL-3867: Store relative paths in metadata file
> This PR turned out to have a flaw which affects version compatibility.
> The DRILL-3867 PR changed the format of Parquet metadata files to store 
> relative paths. All Drill servers after that PR create files with relative 
> paths. But, the version number of the file is unchanged, so that older 
> Drillbits don't know that they can't understand the file.
> Instead, if an older Drill tries to read the file, queries fail left and 
> right. Drill will resolve the paths, but does so relative to the user's HDFS 
> home directory, which is wrong.
> What should have happened is that we should have bumped the parquet metadata 
> file version number so that older Drillbits can’t read the file. This ticket 
> requests that we do that.
> Now, one could argue that the lack of version number change is fine. Once a 
> user upgrades Drill, they won't use an old Drillbit. But, things are not that 
> simple:
> * A developer tests a branch based on a pre-DRILL-3867 build on a cluster in 
> which metadata files have been created by a post-DRILL-3867 build. (This has 
> already occurred multiple times in our shop.)
> * A user tries to upgrade to Drill 1.11, finds an issue, and needs to roll 
> back to Drill 1.10. Doing so will cause queries to fail due to 
> seemingly-corrupt metadata files.
> * A user tries to do a rolling upgrade: running 1.11 on some servers, 1.10 on 
> others. Once a 1.11 server is installed, the metadata is updated ("corrupted" 
> from the perspective of 1.10) and queries fail.
> Standard practice in this scenario is to:
> * Bump the file version number when the file format changes, and
> * Software refuses to read files with a version newer than the software was 
> designed for.
> Of course, it is highly desirable that newer servers read old files, but that 
> is not the issue here.



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